..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“There is a pleasure in being with them,” he says. “Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There’s safety in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's the pleasure of the moment that really matters to someone with dementia. — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“No matter where we are and what we are subjected to, we will eventually settle into the new reality and try to… — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Céline Labaune has the knowledge, passion and dedication to finding us only the best truffles from the most reliable source of truffle… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour. — John Braine Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. — John Heywood Copy Share Image
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.” — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
